Radio 3's Music Matters introduces composers
Tom visits the Alwyn archive with Margaret Jones and Andrew Knowles. Broadcast in 2011.
JS Bach’s son is the most important composer in the progression from Baroque to Classical
His career ranged from composing operas & concert works to Oscar-nominated film scores.
Composer and activist Marc Blitzstein is a 20th-century unclassifiable musical figure.
Tom Service presents a tribute to French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
Tom Service talks to French composer, conductor and philosopher of music Pierre Boulez.
Frank Bridge is most well known for teaching Britten. Is his music unfairly overlooked?
Mark Swed and David Nicholls join Tom Service to reassess the life and music of John Cage.
Tom Service with a tribute to composers Hans W Henze and Elliott Carter who died recently.
Mark Elder, François le Roux, Angela Hewitt & Roy Howat on the life&music of the Chabrier
Tom Service gets the French view of Debussy in the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Tom challenges perceptions that Delius was just a sentimental pastoralist. Broadcast 2012
Frederick Delius was an extraordinarily versatile composer.
John Dowland - composer, diplomat, spy & possible traitor was born 450 years ago in 1563.
A portrait of idiosyncratic composer Dutilleux on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Tom discusses Ellington's importance with David Schiff, Geoffrey Smith & Julian Joseph.
A portrait of composer Morton Feldman, the man and his uniquely epic yet intimate music.
The Austrian-born Jewish composer Hans Gal fled to Britain from Hitler’s Third Reich
Petroc Trelawny travels to Naples to explore one of history's most notorious composers.
Tom discovers more about the life and music of Argentinian Composer Alberto Ginastera
Is Hartmann ‘the most significant 20th century composer whose music you barely know’?
Tom Service talks to Lewis Foreman about 'The John Ireland Companion'. Broadcast in 2012
The composer Hans Krasa died in Auschwitz in 1944.
As Kurtág turns 90, Tom Service presents a portrait of the Hungarian composer.